Orange is the new Black

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The bomb just dropped that season 7 is going to be the last for OITNB. Now, as sad as that is, it is probably better to end it while it is still great, rather than beating the horse until it’s dead. But it will still be sad to see these wonderful ladies go and they better not f** up. There needs to be a happy Vauseman endgame or I will be very very angry 😉

OK but let’s talk about the books the literary ladies have been devouring this time. Here is a complete list of the books mentioned or shown in season 6.

Have you read any of these already?

Make your bed – William H Mcraven

The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin

Living as if your life depend on it – Cia Ricco

Dubliners – James Joyce

Dark Star Safari – Paul Theroux

Strip Tease – Carl Hiassen

Love me back – Merritt Tearce

Einstein and the Rabbi – Naomi Levy

Just fly by – Andrew McCarthy

The name therapist – Duana Taha

Elizabeth Street – Laurie Fabiano

Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse

Hacker Mom – Austen Rachlis

The Girl who played with Fire – Stieg Larsson

How to win friends and influence people – Andrew Carnegie

The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins

Eat that Frog! – Brian Tracy

Hope for each day – Billy Graham

Stealing Time – Leslie Glass

A different drummer – William Melvin Kelley

Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson

Did you spot any other books not on that list – please let me know and I will happily add.

From the list I’ve already read Siddhartha, The Hunger Games, How to win friends, and The Girl who played with Fire.

On my to-read list are Einsteins Rabbi and The Happiness Project – what about you? Which one have you already read or would like to read?

I really don’t think there is any other show on TV that features more (Binge)Readers and Books then Orange is the New Black.

Books play a vital role in that series and I can highly recommend that you jump on the wagon of this show and not just for great book recommendations but also for terrific acting in a series that features a lot of diversity and women from all walks of life.

The series came about when real life Piper published a biography based on her experiences in prison. She was incarcerated for money-laundering in connection with a romantic relationship she had with a women who was working in an international drug kartell. Her memoir provides the basis for the popular Netflix-series that features around WASPy Piper Chapman and her on-and-off-lover in prison Alex Vause.

Alex is my favourite character on the show (in case you have not noticed, as I’m very very subtle about this fact) she is not only hot as hell, she is also the biggest bookworm imaginable.

The Library plays a vital role in the show and when in season 3 bed bugs take over the prison and the pest controllers order the burning of all books they even have a funeral for the books and book nerd Alex Vause starts reading the Qumran out of desperation as it is the only book that escaped the fire.

The ultimate book return:

We see the inmates reading in their bunks all the times. They hang out out in the library and very often make pretty smart references to their well-read pasts. The inmates at Litchfield seem to have read it all – so in case you plan to start an Orange Bookclub or need something to read over the summer here is a list of books that have so far appeared in the series (up to season 4) so come in and browse a bit in Litchfield’s library. I hope you find something you like:

Should I ever end up in prison (hey I mean you never know with the Erdogans, Trumps and Putins on the rise) I hope I get a job in the library and nobody will be using my books then for stepladders, that much is clear.

Need a little break from reading? I can of course highly recommend to sneak in some OITNB binge-watching – I wont tell anybody 😉